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By Act of 16 September 2011 (Dz. U. 2011, no 233, item 1381) a vast reform of general and enforcement proceedings was adopted by the Polish Parliament. The Act entered into force on 3rd May 2012. Among many changes introduced by this Act, an emphasis should be put on the new rules of presenting facts and evidence by the parties. The reform of 16 September aims at introducing a general framework which would facilitate a more efficient concentration of the procedural material. The goal of the new regulation consists in introducing a tool which would apply not only to general examination proceedings, but also to the so-called separate (special) procedures and to the non-litigious proceedings.The new regulation endeavors to encourage the parties to provide facts and evidence at an adequate time (i.e. as early as possible) and thus contribute to a smooth and efficient course of the proceedings.

Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, Jagiellonian University, and a legal counsel in Cracow Chamber of Legal Counsel. In 2010 he earned a degree in law from UMCS in Lublin and in 2011 he earned a licentiate in canon law from KUL in Lublin. In 2011 he also graduated from UMCS with a degree in computer science. He prepares a doctoral dissertation on copyrights protection for computer programs’ source code.

Mateusz Grochowski

Ph.D., assistant professor in the Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and in the Institute of Justice, assistant in the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland, holder of scholarships of the Foundation for Polish Science and of the of National Science Centre, visiting scholar at the Università degli Studi di Trento. In his research focuses on regulatory problems of contract law.

Piotr Jantos

Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Law, Jagiellonian University, and a legal counsel. In 2010 he earned a degree in law from UMCS in Lublin and in 2011 he earned a licentiate in canon law from KUL in Lublin. In 2011 he also finished postgraduate studies in EU law at the Jagiellonian University. He prepares a dissertation on the exhaustion doctrine applied to computer software distribution in the European Union law.